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Apple: Eight iPhone Annoyances

Greg, I'd say you need to take a step back and get a perspective on what you see the iPhone as doing for you. It reads as if the iPhone should be the only 'communicator' in your life - voice phone, pager, email, web browser, etc. If that is your pitch then much of what you say is valid.

However, if, like most people, they still have a landline phone, they review/send most emails from a laptop/desktop, life doesn't revolve around just SMS then the iPhone presents for the first(?) time a decent enough mobile companion for all these things. Sure the iPhone can be perfect, and it can only get better as most of your 'annoyances' have software solutions, although possibly some difficult user interaction issues to overcome.

How come it has taken Apple to shake the mobile phone manufacturers out of their complacency? They didn't rush to solve your annoyances either, did they?

Apple's Extra Billion in Deferred Revenues

Could today's decline in share price be a wrong reading of rumors of scaled down orders by Apple for the iPhone? Could it just as well signal Apple starting the process to ramp up a 3G version of the iPhone? Now what would this do for Apple's fortunes?

iPhone Price Drop Is A Bad Sign

Far from being in trouble I'd say that in part the drop in price is to allow for a price position for a 3G new model of iPhone for the European/Far East market. I can see a $499 3G model coming along that could look very attractive in Europe.